AMD Radeon R7 250X vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Radeon R7 250X

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

RV560

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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